HMS Pilote (1779)
| History | |
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 France
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| Name: | Pilote |
| Builder: | Jacques and Danie Denys, Dunkirk |
| Laid down: | July 1778 |
| Launched: | November 1778 |
| Captured: | 2 October 1779 |
 Kingdom of Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Pilote |
| Acquired: | 2 October 1779 by capture |
| Fate: | Sold 1784 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Mutin-class |
| Type: | Cutter |
| Tons burthen: | 21837⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 78 ft 6 3⁄4 in (23.9 m) (overall); 60 ft 5 3⁄8 in (18.4 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 0 3⁄4 in (7.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 2 1⁄2 in (3.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Cutter until 1794 when Brig |
| Complement: | 70 |
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| Notes: | Clinker-built |
HMS Pilote was a cutter launched for the French Navy at Dunkirk in 1778. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1779 and took her into service under her existing name. It sold her in 1799.
Pilote was commissioned in Dunkirk in March 1779 under Captain Denys. She was valued at 58,700 livres tournois.
On 2 October 1779, HMS Jupiter captured two French cutters, each of 14 guns and 120 men. One was Mutin, under the command of Chevalier de Roquefeiul. She was pierced for 16 guns but carried 14, either 4 or 6-pounders. The other was Pilote, under the command of Chevalier de Clonard. She carried the same armament as Mutine (or Mutin). The cutters surrendered after an engagement that left Mutin dismasted. The Royal Navy took both into service essentially under their existing names. Jupiter shared the prize money with Apollo,Crescent, and Milford.
Pilote underwent fitting at Plymouth between 28 March and 12 July 1780. Lieutenant Richard Boger commissioned her in May for the Irish Sea. She shared with Echo and Kite in the proceeds of the capture on 24 December of the Dutch vessel Vryhied. That same day and the day before, Pilote was in company with Rattlesnake and they shared in the proceeds of the capture of Jussrow Johanna, Adriana, and Vrow Maria.Pilote shared with a number of other vessels in the proceeds of the taking of the Union American, and the retaking of the brig Industry.
In April 1781 Pilote was at Plymouth again where she underwent copper sheathing. In 1781 Pilote captured the Dutch vessel Linderbloom.
Pilote was under the command of Lieutenant Charles Seymour Lynn on 5 December 1782 when she captured the Dutch ship Fortunée. She was paid off in May 1783 and then Lynn recommissioned her.
Between 1786 and 1787 Pilote was under the command of Lieutenant Warwick Oben.
From 1791 she was still in the Irish Sea and under the command of Lieutenant Henry Gunter. In March 1793 she was driven on shore at Waterford from her moorings.
Between June and July 1794 Pilote was yet again at Plymouth undergoing work, this time for conversion to a brig.Pilote was under the command of Lieutenant Jackson Dowsing when she captured the French vessel Maria Theresa.
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